Bad dreams/nightmares

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:06am

Have you guys ever had a recurring dream or nightmare? Not even recurring, but what is one that sticks out the most? I had one today. I took a nap and dreamed that my friend killed one of our other friends by putting staples in her milkshake or something... I woke up freaking out. Any other stories?

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:09am

I have a recurring dream that used to make me sleepwalk (now it just makes me delirious when I wake up). It used to involve the CN Tower (of all things) toppling over, my body shrinking to the size of a peanut, and a pack of cards that wouldn't shuffle correctly. Weird stuff.

[broadway86]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:13am

The strangest thing happened last September. It was my first week sleeping at the dorms, and I had a dream about "Kill Bill: Vol. 1 - The Musical". In it, the House of Blue Leaves scene was set to 'Zoot Suit Riot'. I go to post it here the next day, and someone else has the EXACT SAME DREAM!!! What are the odds?

One time, I dreamed that I was drowning in a large swimming pool, when suddenly two hands come out of nowhere and grab me. It felt so real, so I pretty much jumped out of bed.

[Broadway_Baby]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:15am

"It used to involve the CN Tower (of all things) toppling over, my body shrinking to the size of a peanut, and a pack of cards that wouldn't shuffle correctly."

There has to be something genius in that, Wizard.

Updated On: 12/23/05 at 12:15 AM

[Mamie]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:15am

The worst I ever had happened when I was really exhausted. I was in that half asleep/half awake state when I started dreaming. I was walking down the hallway in my apartment. I passed the closet where the door was opened just a couple of inches. Just as I passed, a hand darted out and grabbed my arm. It scared me so much that I woke up immediately with my heart racing a mile a minute.

The nightmare part of this is that I was so tired that I almost immediately started to fall asleep again. As I did, there I was again - walking down the hall, past the door, the hand pops out and grabs me and there I am again - in bed, wide awake, heart racing. This kept repeating itself, over and over again. It got so I knew that I was dreaming and that a hand was going to come out of that closet. In the dream, I tried to prepare for it - I knew it was just a hand, it was just going to grab my arm, it wasn't going to hurt me, it was only a dream...... and then it happened again and again I woke up with my heart in my throat. This was the most exhausting - and terrifying - night I've ever had. Thank God it never happened again!

[Broadway_Baby]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:21am

That's chilling, Mamie.

Funny how the mind works, eh?

[DG]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:22am

Mamie - that was pretty intense just to read!

For the first few years after my Granmother died, I used to dream I'd be going through the checkout at a grocery store and look up and see her standing in the doorway. Then she'd shake her head and turn around and walk away - and every time I had that dream, I KNEW she waouldn't approve of what was going on in my life.

What can I say? I was a teenager, and making some very interesting choices!

[Mamie]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:28am

Well, I'll tell you Douglas - among my many oddities is the fact that I do believe those who have passed do come back - just to 'visit'. It doesn't happen often for me, but every once in a while I'll have this little dream where I'm sitting at the dining room table with my grandmother sitting right next to me. We're just looking through a magazine. Then I notice my grandfather standing in the doorway, watching us. That's it - nothing more to it than that. I think it's just a little visit - letting me know they're thinking about me.

Maybe you were at a time in your life where a little extra guidance was needed. Your grandmother was just stopping by to help you with it.

Updated On: 12/23/05 at 12:28 AM

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:29am

wow! these are really interesting! keep them coming! I wanna hear more!

[Mamie]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:36am

I would happily try to volunteer more but I'm getting pretty sleepy. I hope I don't have a new one to add to the thread tomorrow!

[Plum]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:50am

A loooong, time ago, my school was in the DARE program, and we were taught how people who were high sometimes thought they were Superman and jumped off buildings. So that night I had a dream that I was dressed in a Superman costume and jumped off the Eiffel Tower, only to fall to the pavement.

Yes, I was a weird, weird little kid. Nothing's changed, huh?

[DG]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:52am

PLUM - Did you actually hit the pavement? Supposedly, that's not a possibility - death in your own dream.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:56am

No, I didn't. It was one of those weird things when I was dreaming but I was aware I was dreaming. I wasn't quite conscious enough to take control of the narrative (I've only done that twice as far as I can remember), but something in me "knew" the dream had to end before I hit the ground, so it did.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:56am

Oh, and quite recently I had a dream where I was murdered. That's definitely the scariest one I've had in a long, long time.

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 12:57am

oh wow... That's not a possibility, DG? Random threadjack of my own thread, DG- how many posts have you made?

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:03am

I dream and remember very vivid details from some very long, involved dreams.

The last one involved a murder - lots of blood and then the investigation. I had shot someone who had been stalking/harassing me. It involved so many different details, from someone sell pot, to a car that would not run, and blood being cleaned off the entrance way into the condo that to write everything down would probably take an hour. I sometimes wake up exhausted because of my dreams.

I have dreamed that I have been killed, and have dreamed that I killed others.

Then, I just have a silly one, like the night before last where I dreamed I bought a moped, and was parking in front of my car in my space. The dream included reviewing consumer reports and making sure I got the right one, and a few trips around town on my new toy.

I have also had stress dreams, like the time in college where I dreamed that Shakespeare actually cut me upon into squares and then stacked my pieces into one big square. That one was pretty easy to figure out.

Oy - what goes on in this noggin.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:04am

I used to have an recurring dream that one by one all of my teeth would become loose and feel like they would when you were a kid. You know when you just HAD to get them out? And then I would pull them out one by one. Then finally one night in the dream there was a perfect set of teeth behind them once I pulled them all out. I never had the dream again.

The weirdest dream I had right after I started seriously dating my ex. I dreamed that my parents and I were on a college campus and there was a killer loose. The killer murdered both of my parents and then I knew they were after me. I was just stepping out of the shower and a blonde girl was standing there. She stabbed me. Then I basically saw the dream from another angle and saw the paramedics come in and zip me up in a body bag. The weird thing is the way she stabbed me, or more like sliced me. It was a perfect Y autopsy incision. The thing is, I saw an autopst incision for the first time like three weeks later. Very odd.

My ex is an analyst and told me she thought the dream was because I was afraid of how strong my feelings were for her (she was the blonde) and I was facing the fact that my parents were not infallible. My mother had asked to borrow money the week before. It was nutty.

[DG]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:06am

Diva - not NEARLY as many as I had in my previous incarnation (DGrant)- which I'm sure many people are thankful for!

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:10am

Yeah, I woke up pretty terrified from my murder dream.
And Diva, can you really threadjack your own thread?

Threadjack: When the hell did I become a Legend????

Updated On: 12/23/05 at 01:10 AM

[tacos are great]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:10am

I get night terrors, but it isn't very interesting, because I've never remembered them the next day. I was never able to go to sleepovers when I was kid because of these things. My mom says it looks kind of like a seizure because my eyes will be wide open and I'll shake so hard it looks like convulsions. I always wake up screaming and scared, but not knowing why. It's really odd--and exhausting. That's why I hardly sleep now, it's much less tiring to just stay awake.

[DG]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:12am

taco - if that's a real story, then you have my deepest sympathy - truly. I knew someone who suffered from night terror, and it all but ruined their life.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:19am

My friend is a very large gay man. He suffers from night terrors. He is the most wonderful man in the world. We worked together in a team setting. We lived in hotels together for months at a time. They liked to double us up in room with the same sex. I would room with him just because his terrors would scare the hell out of any other roomies.

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:20am

oh wow. JerseyGirl- I've had that exact dream before. I dream that my teeth are all loose and I try to pull them out, and my jaw clenches and gets really really tight. It's really scary. I've had it more than once.

[Yawper]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:20am

I used to have a couple of recurring ones

While growing up I had one where I was backed into a corner of a really tall room, no windows or doors visible, and was looking at a huge pile of large rocks and boulders that filled the rest of the room, angling up to the top corner diagonally from me. I always woke up as the topmost rocks were rolling down the slant of the pile toward me.

After graduating from college I had one where I was in school (sometimes college, sometime high school) and exam time was approaching. I would suddenly realize, or sometimes just have an inkling, that sometime along the way I had forgotten to attend one of my classes after the first session or two. Sometimes I had an idea of what the specific subject was, sometimes I didn't know at all (though it was always a math or science class). I was also never sure of which building, or in what room, the class met. All I knew was that I had attended long enough to secure my place in it without being dropped (so I'd be given a grade no matter what), that exams were coming up (if I hadn't already missed that one), and I had to somehow find the class and try to catch up. I usually make it to a room, but am not sure if it's the right class. But one time I was left standing near the center of campus in a cold, grey rain trying to figure out which building I needed.

[Plum]

Posted: 12/23/05 at 1:23am

I once had a dream I was at the house of a classmate (I'd never actually been to her house), and I went up to her attic and she turned into a giant preying mantis.

Once again, I was a weird kid. :P